{"id":5188,"date":"2013-02-13T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/the-hellschreiber-teleprinter-used-by-the-german\/"},"modified":"2014-04-02T14:49:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T14:49:30","slug":"the-hellschreiber-teleprinter-used-by-the-german","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/?p=5188","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5188 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/text-mode.org\/?attachment_id=5189'><img width=\"115\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tumblr_mi4aukRyWI1rpiyaso4_12801.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/text-mode.org\/?attachment_id=5190'><img width=\"128\" height=\"92\" src=\"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tumblr_mi4aukRyWI1rpiyaso1_12801.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/text-mode.org\/?attachment_id=5191'><img width=\"85\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tumblr_mi4aukRyWI1rpiyaso3_12801.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/text-mode.org\/?attachment_id=5192'><img width=\"128\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/tumblr_mi4aukRyWI1rpiyaso2_12801.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hellschreiber\" target=\"_blank\">Hellschreiber teleprinter<\/a>, used by the German military for telecommunications in the 1930s. Due to its pixel-based font, it performed better than the typewriter-based technologies at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The strange machine photo is a receiver. You can see the &#8220;mechanical font memory&#8221; in action <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-on11UVAcrw&amp;feature=player_embedded\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Also, listen to the transmission sounds <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Hellschreiber.ogg\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This system is still being used by some radio amateurs.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonstopsystems.com\/radio\/hellschreiber-fonts.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swharden.com\/blog\/2011-08-05-i-before-e-except-after-hellschreiber\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hellschreiber teleprinter, used by the German military for telecommunications in the 1930s. Due to its pixel-based font, it performed better than the typewriter-based technologies at the time. The strange machine photo is a receiver. You can see the &#8220;mechanical font memory&#8221; in action here. Also, listen to the transmission sounds here. This system is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439],"tags":[1425,475,13,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5193,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188\/revisions\/5193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}